puerto penasco report last weekend

[RIC]

The forecast was calling for windy conditions late last week and again sunday and monday in rocky point but saturday looked like it might be just calm enough to make it out. I woke up saturday morning at 5:00 am to very slight breezes so i picked up my good fishing buddies Shawn Gustafson and Bill Hayden and we launched out of cholla bay just before 7:00 am. We stopped at the 16 mile reef on 180 degree heading to catch some bait. We had hoped to load up on live pacific mackerel but only caught 3 although the large (6-10 inch) sardines were very thick and we caught an entire bucket full in about an hour. These do not survive in the livewell but make excellent fresh dead bait. The breeze had picked up and we had a bumpy ride out with a following sea in 2-3 ft tightly spaced whitecapped chop. We arrived at the first spot and 3 boats were already fishing. 2 were already anchored and one was just getting set up. On the second drift we had a double hookup and Shawn picked up a nice white sea bass on a large jig and I brought in a good red snapper using a whole sardine rigged on a circle hook. We made several more drifts with no additonal bites and did not see a lot of action on the other boats so we headed to another spot a couple miles away. We made several drifts over the structure and had triple hookups each time on large goldspotted bass and ocean whitefish. We then anchored up and had consistent action on the goldspots and whitefish and a couple more snapper using the fresh dead sardines but Shawn continued to use the jig with good success on the same fish but after a while he got into a hot bite on yellowtail and picked up several from 8 to almost 20 lbs. We fished until about 5:30 pm and luckily the seas had calmed down nicely and we ran back to cholla bay and were back on the trailer just as the sun set.




Shawn Gustafson in the pics below with his best yellowtail of the day as well as the white sea bass and a nice snapper from the first double hookup of the day

[writebrian]

Ric, You didn't tell me their where yellows in RP. LET'S GO FISHING!!!

Brian

[BajaConcept]

Nice catch no BSB?

[Deno]

Nice, my brother in-law is always trying to drag me there. I didn’t know they had Yellows. I always thought it was like San Felipe, just dead. I might have to start being nice to the guy, he’s got a lot of family down there.

[sixty]

Thanks for the report Ric.
Bouy weather was showing pretty nasty weather for Sunday, glad you guys got calm weather on the way in.

Good job on the yellows, what were the water temps? I like your new webpage too!

[Kevin J. Oliver]

Is this the rocky point on mainland side where all the college spring break parties are ? where exactly is puerto penasco ? thanks.

[sixty]

Originally Posted by Kevin J. Oliver

Is this the rocky point on mainland side where all the college spring break parties are ? where exactly is puerto penasco ? thanks.

Thats the place. about 4 hours south of Phoenix. The run to the good fishing is close to 50 miles offshore.

[Gil Marlin]

Nice fish... I wish we had some deeper water and structure on the other side like you do...

[2 Hands]

Ric, curious what kind/color of jig the yellows were hitting. Gonna be down there next weekend!

[DOGHOUSE26]

Nice , thanks for the report! Was that a pargo or red snapper in the first pic with the WSB and the rockfish?

[RIC]

Originally Posted by sixty

Thanks for the report Ric.
Bouy weather was showing pretty nasty weather for Sunday, glad you guys got calm weather on the way in.

Good job on the yellows, what were the water temps? I like your new webpage too!

Water temp was in the mid 50's at the surface.

ric

Rics Rocky point fishing home page

[RIC]

Originally Posted by DOGHOUSE26

Nice , thanks for the report! Was that a pargo or red snapper in the first pic with the WSB and the rockfish?

red snapper, we do get some barred pargo as well but usually in shallower water.

ric